‘So clever and so much fun. Fans of Miss Marple will be delighted!’: 8 greatest crime fiction to learn this autumn

Need a gripping learn to maintain you firm now the times have cooled? Good information for crime fiction followers – there are some cracking homicide mysteries, thriller and crime novels out now. Whether you want your crime cosy, intelligent or chopping (or all three!), here is our decide of the very best books to learn.

We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman

Possibly probably the most anticipated e book of 2026 is right here. Osman brings again the crime combating group of former cop Steve, his daughter-in-law Amy and bestselling writer Rosie from We Solve Murders for an additional loopy journey. This time, they’re employed by a rich entrepreneur whose life has been threatened.

Murder At The Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley

What a deal with it’s to have a brand new Miss Marple novel – her first outing in 50 years! The plot is traditional Christie: an remoted resort within the Swiss Alps, a gaggle of individuals trapped collectively by a snowstorm and a lifeless physique inside the first few pages. It’s a threat to tackle such an iconic character, however Foley has pulled it off.

Based On A True Story by Sarah Vaughan

This twisty thriller has a lot I like: a grand home on a windswept Cornish cliff, an enigmatic author celebrating her seventieth birthday in type, a secret blackmailer and three daughters duking it out to be the favorite. Superbly plotted and engrossing from begin to end.

A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

This sixth e book is the Detective Hawthorn sequence, which started with The Word Is Murder,is one other slice of fiendish enjoyable. This time we’re on a movie set the place the primary Hawthorne/Horowitz thriller novel is being become a movie. The complete manufacturing has been chaos, with delays and a dwindling finances. Now the star actor David Caine, who was enjoying Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne, is lifeless and the true Hawthorne – joined by his sidekick Anthony Horowitz – has been known as in to analyze.

Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister

Simone arrives in Texas for a tenting journey along with her 18-year-old daughter, Lucy, however on the primary night time she wakes to search out Lucy lacking. From there, the story races at full tilt as Simone does all she will be able to to get her again, even when it entails committing a horrible crime…

Witch Trial by Harriet Tyce

Two college ladies accused of inflicting the demise of their buddy by witchcraft on this gripping thriller by The Traitors contestant. The story is instructed from the purpose of surgeon Matthew who’s a member of the jury of their trial: as he finds out increasingly concerning the case, he turns into obsessed. Harriet does an excellent job of constructing the strain to an nearly insufferable pitch, till the reader is simply as invested as Matthew in whether or not the 2 ladies truly are witches. The e book explores how the reality is usually ignored in favour of emotions and the way a authorized case is swiftly become a full-fledged ‘witch trial’ on the platform of social media, properly earlier than even a shred of proof is offered.

Revenge Plot by Stephanie Wrobel

With hints of the movie Misery, this Christmas-set thriller is the proper e book for a chilly winter’s day. Literary agent Claudia Conley is settling right down to a feast within the treehouse Airbnb she’s rented for the vacations when a author and his younger son crash close by. Reluctantly she takes them in solely to find the crash just isn’t fairly the accident it appears… I couldn’t put this down!

Murder On The Royal Crescent by Harriet F Townson

I really like this sequence of Golden Age crime-style homicide mysteries from Townson (aka Harriet Evans). In this comply with as much as D Is For Death, Nancy Mitford meets Miss Marple over Christmas in 1936 Bath – what’s to not love!